Wagon-stake standard.



No, $39,542. K PATBNTBD SEPT. 22, 1903.

J. H. 'Q -@Essom.- 1 WAGON sAKE' STANDARD. APPLIUATON FILED NOV. 8. 1902.

N0 MODEL.

TIE@ l UNITED STATES Patented September 22, 1903.

' PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES HENRY GRESSOM, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOR TO OWEN T. DOUGHERTY, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

`WAeoN-s TAKE STANDARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 739,542, dated September 22, 1903.

Application iiled November 6,1902. Serial No. 130,261. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, JAMES HENRY GREssoM,'

a citizen of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wagon-Stake Standards, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to wagon-stake standards, and has for its object the production of a standard of special formation enabling it to be cheaply manufactured and to require a minimum of metal in its construction, thus cutting down its weight, while obtaining maximum strength and durability by reason of the peculiar fashion and arrangement of its elements. v I accomplish the objects set forth by means of the parts and their association illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a side perspective View. Fig. 2 is a side view in vertical section; and Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the upper portion or block, showing the preferred form of the,

stake hole or socket.

Like numerals refer to like parts throughout the several views.

In the drawings, numeral 1 marks a wagonbolster of anysize or form having a rounded termination 2. About this end of the bolster passes the base-band 3, U-shaped and having the end plates 4 and 5 (see Figs. 1 and 2) pierced with suitable bolt or screw holes 6, and, further, the band is sometimes provided with dropped or extended edge portions 7 and 8, having screw-holes 9 10, and by means of the various screw-holes the base-band is secured to the rounded end ofthe bolster, as illustrated. Rising from the end plates 4 and 5 of the base-band are the inclined side pieces or legs 11 and 12, stiffened and strengthened by the ribs 13 and 14; and formed usually integral, withrthe base-band below and the socket-block 15 above. be welded' together," as well as cast. It will be noted here that the hole 16 through the socket-block 15 is in the shape of a horseshoe, Yand owing to this peculiar shape it is possible to get a stake out easily if it should happen to break in the socket-hole, for a broken stake could be worked back and forth These elements may in the square end of hole 16 and any split portions turned around and drawn out in the round end of the hole; but an unbroken stake would be kept from turning about by the peculiar shape of the hole.

Numeral 17 refers to the inclined front piece or brace of myv invention. This piece eX- tends from the socket-block 15 downwardly and outwardly to the bend of the base-band 3 around the end 2 of bolster 1. Front piece 17 is curved both lengthwise and laterally, presenting outwardly a rounded surface and inwardly a concave surface. The lower end of the curved front piece 17 fits the rounded end of the bolster and merges into the baseband 3,'as shown. At its upper part front piece 17 merges into block 15; but at the. topy of the block it is extended above the block and provided with an orilce 19, which is for the purpose of tying ropes or hooking chains tohold any portion of a load on the wagon. The piece through which orifice 19 passes is entirely out of the way, and as it forms a solid part of the block and is not merely riveted on it is not likely to be broken oft, even if a heavy log or stick of timber should fall upon it.

Considering Fig. 2, it will be observed that there is a lug 2O formed at the lower end and upon the hollow or inner side of front brace 17. Lug 2O may be pierced by ascrew-hole 21 and act to secure front brace 17 more permanently to the end of the bolster. It will be observed from the drawings that the standard is given an unusually long base-area in connection with the bolster, and this feature adds materially to the rigidity and strength of the whole- I am aware that numerous wagon-stake standards have been patented, and I make no general claim to such articles.

Awagon-stake standard consisting of a sin* gle piece of metaLvcompri/sing a hollow socketi block at the top merging into an outwardly and downwardly curving concave front piece, the said front piece extending above the said block and having the orice 19 above the block, the lower and concave end of the front piece adapted to engage the'rounded end of roe a bolster and hving a lug 2O xed to the top In testimony whereof I affix my signature of the bolster, the said front piece merging in presence of two Witnesses. into the base-band 3 by which the end of the bolster is inelosed, and the straight; inclined rearbraces 11 and 12 having their ends merged into base 3 and into said block, as shown and described.

l JAMES HENRY GREssoM.

Witnesses:

GEO. F. EDWARDS, ALICE P. ANDERSON. 

